Eight City Study of Child Political Socialization, 1961-1962 (ICPSR 7297)

Citation

Easton, David, and Hess, Robert. Eight City Study of Child Political Socialization, 1961-1962. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07297.v1

Summary

This study sought to measure children's early receptiveness
to political concepts. A structured questionnaire was administered to
a sample of white urban public school children in grades 2 through 8
from eight American cities: Boston, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine,
Chicago, Illinois, Sioux City, Iowa, Atlanta, Georgia, Jackson,
Mississippi, San Francisco, California, and Tacoma,
Washington. Information was collected on attitudes toward real people
and roles, opinions concerning the origin, relevance, and supremacy of
laws, and cognizance of current affairs and issues. All grades were
given the same physical questionnaire, but only grades 4 through 8
completed it in its entirety. Grades 2 and 3 stopped after they had
reached their respective limits.

Citation

Easton, David, and Hess, Robert. Eight City Study of Child Political Socialization, 1961-1962. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07297.v1

Time Period(s)

Date of Collection

Sample

The continental United States was divided into four
regions: Northeast, Northcentral, South, and West. From each region
two cities were chosen, one with a population greater than 1,000,000
and the other with a population ranging between 100,000 and
500,000. The cities were: Boston, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine,
Chicago, Illinois, Sioux City, Iowa, Atlanta, Georgia, Jackson,
Mississippi, San Francisco, California, and Tacoma, Washington. Within
each city public schools were purposively chosen from "middle-class"
and "working-class" areas. The sample was exclusively white.

Universe

Urban public school children in grades 2 through 8.

Data Source

self-enumerated questionnaires

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1984-03-18

Version Date

1992-02-16

Version History

1984-03-18 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Notes

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